Truck trailer manufacturing · Kansas

Flinthills Industries

Hillsboro, KS · ~54 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flinthills Industries runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Flinthills Industries: 5.8 TCR = 175% of Truck trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flinthills Industries safety composite

Flinthills Industries scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−4.9

2016→2020

Flinthills Industries injury rate improved

Flinthills Industries's TCR fell 4.9 from 8.9 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.9 · 2017=5.8 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Hillsboro, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 175% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Wabash New Lisbon
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wabash New Lisbon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Flinthills Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Flinthills Industries averages 5.8 TCR (175% of the Truck trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Flinthills Industries TCR series: 2016=8.9 · 2017=5.8 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Flinthills Industries falls in its industry

474 Truck trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 11 Truck trailer manufacturing employers in Kansas.

Flinthills Industries (54 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Flinthills Industries
Flinthills Industries (54 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Flinthills Industries has fewer employees than the Truck trailer manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 4.0 1.3 3 0 0
2019 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2018 7.6 3.8 6 0 0
2017 5.8 1.9 3 0 0
2016 8.9 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · KS · Hillsboro

474 Truck trailer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 11 employers in Hillsboro, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Wabash New Lisbon 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Tex Caldwell 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carry-On Missouri Valley 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fontaine Specialized 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Great Bend Feeding 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hays 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE HydroChem LLC-EKS 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Collins & Hermann - KC 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barkman Honey 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillsboro Community Hospital 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillsboro Industries 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salem Home 65 FTE
NAT-TCR Oharco-Omaha 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR North Hills Mark Taper Family Center 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Etta Israel Center - Corp 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ATK Audiotek 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sub Base Janitorial 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Global Views Management LLC 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jxnoe Nola 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ace Mitchell Bowler's Mart 54 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.